North-Eastern Runty Championship

The North-Eastern Runty Championship (NERC), is the first professional runty league in the world. Founded in 1946, the league currently consists of 9 teams.

Even though the sport of Runty was codified in the 1870s, there weren't any true leagues until 1936, when the Central National Runty Division was started. Soon after, a Western Runty Division and Eastern Runty Division were founded. As the 3 leagues got off the ground, the consensus was that the Northeastern league was the most skilled, even if the other two divisions were on the same level of the pyramid. Eventually, in 1946, with a growing demand to turn the sport professional, the top 6 of the league's 11 teams formed the Northeastern Runty Championship, under the guidance of the Governing body of Runty. The other 5 teams in the ERD were outraged by this decision, but the newly-founded NERC was not opposed to allowing the other teams, and some of the CNRD and WRD teams to join the league in the future.

The league's inaugural season was held in 1946, and it culminated with the Hempstead Clippers winning the Champions Cup with a shock victory over the New York Knights.